Posts Tagged ‘antique’

Just a quick blurb– We are proud to announce new ads running in Antique Toy World. This month we are starting up full page ads to help us network around the world. Dale Kelly was kind enough to work with us on our inaugural campaign. Thanks for all your help Dale!

Old Toys & Photos– What is your time frame? Marty asked me to define and antique. ‘It is officially a toy over 100 years…’ I said. Then he asked about vintage toys. ‘..To me it is a toy that is at least 15 years old’ Then he drilled deeper and asked me to define the term “Old Toys.”…

Old Windup Toys and Antique toy Windups This may be a great opportunity to show off some of the current windup toys on AntiqueToys as well as show off some toy history. Check out the old windup toys & photos below. Below are old windup toy mechanisims to get a flavor for what “used…

February 2017 started with a bang and a long awaited trip to Japan. Thank you to my gracious friends from around the world that met up and hosted! One would think that Japan was going to have wall-to-wall toys for the picking. Older visions in my mind conjured up images of stuffed toy shops waiting for customers.…

Cast iron toy and Antique cast iron collecting Cast iron toy collecting seems to consistently create a love hate relationship. Love them for beauty; hate them for rarity. Love them for the history; hate them because the historic ones don’t get offered for sale often. Love them for their craftsmanship; hate them when you get…

World’s most expensive Toys Searching for valuable toys and internet research is fraught with mistakes, exaggerations, misrepresentations, and assumptions. I constantly get asked “Did you get a load of that article on the World’s most expensive toys? Barbie? GI Joe? Gundam? Something seems off.” Let me reframe the question, qualify, then correct. For me,…

In the age of Tweets, Likes, captures, snaps, et. al. it is so great to meet collectors in person. Visits like the one I enjoyed last week make me want to drop the computer in the trash & network with only an old phone, two hands, two eyes, and two feet. This Sunday a vintage car collector invited me…

Peering into the flat matt of dust, smoke residue, and pet hair; I started to recognize the outline of a vintage Arcade toy. Looking closer, the store owner’s find began to take shape as a Number 2 size Yellow Cab from the early 1900’s.